2019 Wexford County Council election
A Wexford County Council election was held in County Wexford in Ireland on 24 May 2019 as part of that year's local elections. All 34 councillors were elected for a five-year term of office from 6 local electoral areas (LEAs) by single transferable vote. The 2018 LEA boundary review committee replaced the four LEAs used in the 2014 elections, each of which had more than the seven seat maximum set in the 2018 terms of reference. The changes were enacted by statutory instrument (S.I.) No. 637/2018.


2019 Wexford County Council election
Fianna Fáil gained an additional seat boosting their numbers to 12 overall while also increasing their vote by almost 3%. The party was boosted by the candidature of Malcolm Byrne in Ireland South. However outgoing Cathaoirleach Keith Doyle proved to be a casualty in the Enniscorthy LEA. Fine Gael retained 9 seats overall while Labour returned 2 seats again; this time both from the Wexford LEA. Independents increased their numbers by 2 seats from 6 to 8. The elections were very disappointing for Sinn Féin who lost 3 seats, including 1 to Aontú, to be reduced to just 2 seats in total.


2019 Wexford Senior Football Championship
The 2019 Wexford Senior Football Championship is the 121st edition of the Wexford GAA's premier club Gaelic football tournament for senior graded teams in County Wexford, Ireland. The tournament consists of 12 teams, with the winner going on to represent Wexford in the Leinster Senior Club Football Championship. The championship starts with a group stage and then progresses to a knock out stage.


2019 Wexford Senior Football Championship
Shelmaliers were the defending champions after they defeated Kilanerin-Ballyfad in the previous years final after a replay to claim their first ever title. The defence of their title this season however came undone at the Quarter-Final stage when succumbing to Gusserane O'Rahilly's.


2019 Wexford Senior Football Championship
This was Horeswood's return to the senior grade after claiming the 2018 Wexford I.F.C. title. They made the straight bounce-back up to the senior grade, spending just one year as an Intermediate club after suffering relegation from the S.F.C. in 2017.


2019 Wexford Senior Football Championship
On 13 October 2019, Castletown claimed their 11th Wexford S.F.C. crown when defeating Gusserane O'Rahilly's by 3-16 to 2-10 in the final at Wexford Park. This ended a nine year barren spell for the club and also brought them equal with St. John's Volunteers at the top of the all time Wexford S.F.C. roll of honour.


2019 Wexford Senior Football Championship
St. Anne's Rathangan were relegated to the 2020 I.F.C. after losing their Relegation Final to Kilanerin-Ballyfad. This ended their 29 year tenure in the senior ranks since their promotion in 1990.


2019 Wexford Senior Football Championship, Team Changes
The following teams have changed division since the 2018 championship season.


2019 Wexford Senior Football Championship, Group stage
There are 2 groups called Group A and B. The top 4 in each group qualify for the Quarter Finals. The bottom finisher in each group will qualify for the Relegation Final.


2019 Wexford Senior Football Championship, Relegation Final
The bottom finisher from both groups qualify for the Relegation final. The loser will be relegated to the 2020 Intermediate Championship.


2019 Wexford Senior Football Championship, Finals
The top 4 teams from each group qualify for the Quarter-Finals with 1st -vs- 4th and 2nd -vs- 3rd in each case.


2019 Wexford Senior Hurling Championship
The 2019 Wexford Senior Hurling Championship was the 109th staging of the Wexford Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Wexford County Board in 1889. The championship began on 12 April 2019 and ended on 27 October 2019.


2019 Wexford Senior Hurling Championship
Naomh Éanna were the defending champions, however, they were defeated by Ferns St. Aidan's at the quarter-final stage.


2019 Wexford Senior Hurling Championship
On 27 October 2019, St. Martin's won the championship after a 1-15 to 1-12 defeat of St. Anne's Rathangan in the final at Innovate Wexford Park. This was their fourth championship title overall and their first title since 2017.


2019 Wexford by-election
A by-election was held in the Dáil Éireann Wexford constituency in Ireland on Friday, 29 November 2019, to fill the vacancy left by the election of Independents 4 Change TD Mick Wallace to the European Parliament.


2019 Wexford by-election
It was held on the same day as three other by-elections in Cork North-Central, Dublin Fingal and Dublin Mid-West. The Electoral (Amendment) Act 2011 stipulates that a by-election in Ireland must be held within six months of a vacancy occurring. The by-election writ was moved in the Dáil on 7 November 2019.


2019 Wexford by-election
At the 2016 general election, the electorate of Wexford was 109,861, and the constituency elected one Labour Party TD, one Fianna Fáil TD, one I4C TD and two Fine Gael TDs.


2019 Wexford by-election
The election was won by Wexford County Councillor Malcolm Byrne of Fianna Fáil. Andrew Bolger was co-opted to Byrne's seat on Wexford County Council following his election to the Dáil.


2019 Wexford by-election
Three of the candidates were sitting Wexford County Councillors; Malcolm Byrne, Jim Codd and George Lawlor. Johnny Mythen was a former Wexford County Councillor while Melissa O'Neill was a former Kilkenny County Councillor.


2019 Wexford by-election
This was the first occasion the Irish Freedom Party contested any national election as a registered political party and, alongside Cork North-Central, the first time Aontú contested by-elections.


2019 Wexford by-election
Byrne subsequently lost his seat at the February 2020 general election. His defeat after only 71 days made him the TD with the second-shortest term of service. Byrne was subsequently elected to the Seanad in April 2020, with Mythen and Murphy being elected to the Dáil in the 2020 general election.


2019 Whakaari / White Island eruption
On 9 December 2019 White Island, an active stratovolcano island in New Zealand's northeastern Bay of Plenty region explosively erupted. The island was a popular tourist destination, known for its volcanic activity, and 47 people were on the island at the time. Twenty-two people died, either in the explosion or from injuries sustained, including two whose bodies were never found and were later declared dead. A further 25 people suffered injuries, with the majority needing intensive care for severe burns. The ongoing seismic and volcanic activity in the area as well as heavy rainfall, low visibility and toxic gases hampered recovery efforts over the week following the incident.


2019 Whakaari / White Island eruption
Experts identified the event as a phreatic eruption: a release of steam and volcanic gases that caused an explosion, launching rock and ash into the air.


2019 Whakaari / White Island eruption
Following the eruption, investigations resulted in WorkSafe New Zealand charging multiple tour operators, government and scientific agencies under the Health and Safety at Work Act for failing to ensure the health and safety of workers and others. The latest hearing was held in June 2021.


2019 Whakaari / White Island eruption, Background
Whakaari / White Island is an active andesite stratovolcano, situated 48 km (30 mi) off the north-northeast coast of the North Island of New Zealand in the Bay of Plenty. The volcano has erupted many times in recent history, including several times in the 1980s. A major eruption formed a new crater in 2000, and small eruptions occurred in 2012, 2013, and 2016.


2019 Whakaari / White Island eruption, Background
The volcano had been showing signs of unrest for several weeks before the 2019 eruption. In October 2019, volcanic tremors and sulphur dioxide gas were at their highest levels since 2016, indicating that an eruption was more likely to occur, and on 18 November, the volcano was rated at Volcanic Alert Level 2, indicating "moderate to heightened volcanic unrest", due to increased activity.


2019 Whakaari / White Island eruption, Background
On 24 November, two weeks prior to the eruption, a moment magnitude (Mw ) 5.9 earthquake lasting approximately one minute with an epicentre located 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) northeast of White Island occurred, and was felt by people throughout New Zealand as far south as Christchurch. Seismic activity can be a contributing factor to hydrothermic eruptions, due to a reduction of pressure within the geothermal system.


2019 Whakaari / White Island eruption, Background
The island is monitored by GNS Science with three web cameras, one seismograph, and a microphone to detect volcanic explosions. The organisation also makes regular visits to test water, gas and soil, and to survey surface deformation.


2019 Whakaari / White Island eruption, Background
Tourists regularly visited the island, primarily through White Island Tours. The organisation posted a statement on their web page before the eruption, which stated:


2019 Whakaari / White Island eruption, Background
Whakaari/White Island is currently on Alert Level 2. This level indicates moderate to heightened volcanic unrest, there is the potential for eruption hazards to occur. White Island Tours operates through the varying alert levels but passengers should be aware that there is always a risk of eruptive activity regardless of the alert level. White Island Tours follows a comprehensive safety plan which determines our activities on the island at the various levels.


2019 Whakaari / White Island eruption, Eruption
The volcano erupted on 9 December 2019 at 14:11 NZDT (01:11 UTC). The ash plume rose 3.7 kilometres (12,000 ft) into the air.


2019 Whakaari / White Island eruption, Eruption
It was initially believed that there were about 100 tourists on or near to the island when the eruption took place; later, this figure was revised to 47 people who were on the island at the time. Of these people, 38 were passengers on a shore excursion from the cruise ship Ovation of the Seas, which was on a 12-day voyage around New Zealand and had berthed at the Port of Tauranga that morning.


2019 Whakaari / White Island eruption, Eruption
Some visitors were waiting for vessels to take them off the island at the time of the eruption. Tour operators and these vessels rescued 23 people from the island before it was officially declared unsafe. A passenger on one of the boats stated that his vessel attempted to first outrun the ash cloud before many on the vessel noticed a crowd of people in need of help on the jetty. Those who were brought onto the boat were aided by the original passengers who used water bottles, jackets and other clothing, inhalers, and eye drops.


2019 Whakaari / White Island eruption, Eruption
Another passenger told reporters that the boat he was on, which was about 200 metres offshore at the time of the eruption, launched an emergency inflatable and retrieved 23 people before returning to the mainland. Paramedics from the New Zealand Coastguard boarded the boat before it reached the docks to tend the injured.


2019 Whakaari / White Island eruption, Eruption
Noticing the eruption from the mainland shore, three commercial helicopter pilots conducted rescue missions to the island in their helicopters, bringing back twelve survivors. They also saw several bodies in the area, but concentrated on bringing back the survivors. The pilots reportedly attempted to return to the island to collect the bodies they had seen but were stopped by police; however, they were consulted later in order to collect the bodies once the area became more stable.


2019 Whakaari / White Island eruption, Casualties
The 47 people on the island at the time of the eruption consisted of 24 Australians, nine Americans, five Kiwis, four Germans, two Chinese, two Britons and one Malaysian. A passenger on a rescue boat stated that many of the injured had severe burns as many of them had worn just T-shirts and shorts for the day.


2019 Whakaari / White Island eruption, Casualties
At 18:35 on 9 December, media were told there was one confirmed fatality, with more likely to be dead as several were missing, while many were injured, seven critically. Authorities said it was still too dangerous for the emergency services to get onto the island to rescue people as it is covered in ash and volcanic material. Later the same day, officials declared that forty-seven people were on the island at the moment of the eruption: five were killed, 34 injured and rescued, while eight were missing and presumed dead.


2019 Whakaari / White Island eruption, Casualties
Three other people died in hospital the next days, bringing the confirmed death toll to eight. Six more bodies were found during an operation on the island, bringing the death toll to 14. On 14 December, it was announced that the death toll had risen to 15 as another injured person died in hospital. A day later, an Australian citizen who was repatriated died in hospital, bringing the death toll to 16, plus two victims whose bodies had not been recovered.


2019 Whakaari / White Island eruption, Casualties
Another victim died from injuries in hospital, pushing the death toll to 19 including two missing people that were presumed dead. A further victim died at a hospital in Australia on 12 January 2020 bringing the total to 20. Authorities were still working to recover two more bodies, although as of 15 January efforts were scaled down.


2019 Whakaari / White Island eruption, Casualties, Fatalities
Over the days following the initial eruption, the death toll steadily rose as bodies were recovered from the island and as several of the severely burnt victims succumbed to their injuries. On 15 December it was announced that the death toll had risen to 16. They included 13 Australian tourists, three Americans and two New Zealand men who worked as guides for White Island Tours. Another victim, an American woman, succumbed to her injuries on 22 December, raising the confirmed death toll to 17 and the number of the American fatalities to four. In January 2020, an Australian man and an American man died of their injuries and the two missing people were officially declared as dead, bringing the death toll to 21. A German man died on 2 July 2020, bringing the death toll to 22.


2019 Whakaari / White Island eruption, Casualties, Fatalities
Due to the severe injuries sustained by those on the island, identification of the deceased was carried out by a variety of individuals including a pathologist, a forensic dentist, and a fingerprint officer. This work was also aided by officers creating a profile on the victims, which included descriptions of appearance, clothing, photos, fingerprints, medical and dental records, and DNA samples. The information was then matched to evidence gathered from the deceased individual in the autopsy.


2019 Whakaari / White Island eruption, Casualties, Injuries
All but three of the survivors suffered severe or critical injuries and the vast majority were badly burned. They were initially taken to Whakatāne Hospital, where they were triaged and stabilised before being transferred to other hospitals. Whakatāne Hospital, Tauranga Hospital, and Waikato Hospital in Hamilton all activated their mass casualty plans. On 10 December, the Ministry of Health announced that twenty-five people had been transferred to the country's four burns units in Auckland (Middlemore), Hamilton, Lower Hutt and Christchurch, all of which were at capacity. On 11 December, it was reported that New Zealand had ordered 1.2 million sq cm of skin from the United States and Australia to treat patients following the eruption, some of whom had burns on up to 95% of their bodies. Three survivors suffered slight injuries.


2019 Whakaari / White Island eruption, Casualties, Injuries
Thirteen injured Australians were airlifted to Australia from the night of 11 December to receive treatment in hospitals in Sydney and Melbourne. Three Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) planes, a C-130J-30 Super Hercules and two C-17 Globemasters, flew to Christchurch with specialist aircrew and medical equipment on board. Several Australian state governments also supplied aircraft to assist in the airlift. A total of twelve Australians were expected to be airlifted to their homeland.


2019 Whakaari / White Island eruption, Casualties, Missing after eruption
Initially, rescuers focused their efforts on people who were still alive and left corpses on the island. Consequently, many people were listed as missing until their bodies were recovered and formally identified. On 15 December authorities said the bodies of two victims had not been found and may have been swept into the sea. Police believe their bodies were initially near a stream, and were swept down the stream during a "significant weather event" on the night of 9 December. On 23 January, the coroner declared the missing two to be dead.


2019 Whakaari / White Island eruption, Aftermath
Directly after the eruption, the volcanic alert level for the island was raised to 4, but was decreased by 16:30 on the same day to level 3. No further eruptive activity occurred, and on 12 December the volcanic alert level was lowered to 2, signifying "moderate to heightened volcanic unrest." Volcanic tremor increased in the aftermath of the eruption, with small scale gas jetting and steam bursts observed on 13 December, however, the volcanic tremor level dropped that evening.


2019 Whakaari / White Island eruption, Aftermath
Ovation of the Seas postponed its departure from Tauranga until the morning of 11 December as police collected DNA samples from the cabins of the missing passengers. Māori townspeople and members of the Ovation of the Seas passengers and crew, held a moment of silence honouring the ship's passengers and other victims. Later a representative of the Māori began a karakia tau te mauri, a traditional blessing to settle the spirit before the ship left. The ship returned to Sydney on 16 December on an altered itinerary via Wellington and Picton. All passengers received the equivalent of one day's fare in on-board credit as compensation.


2019 Whakaari / White Island eruption, Aftermath
All those injured and killed in the eruption, regardless of nationality, would be covered by the Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC), who administer New Zealand's no-fault accident compensation scheme. The ACC Act generally prevents claims for damages for negligent acts in New Zealand, but it may be possible for the cruise ship passengers to sue in American courts under United States maritime law.


2019 Whakaari / White Island eruption, Investigation and prosecution
In December 2019, the New Zealand Police launched an investigation into the disaster in conjunction with WorkSafe New Zealand.


2019 Whakaari / White Island eruption, Investigation and prosecution
On 30 November 2020, it was reported that WorkSafe New Zealand had filed charges against thirteen parties over tours to the island, including its owners, the Buttle family (who own the island through Whakaari Management Ltd), GNS Science, the National Emergency Management Agency, and tour operators Volcanic Air and the Ngāti Awa–owned White Island Tours. Ten parties have been charged under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015; nine under Section 36 for failing to ensure the health and safety of workers and others, with one facing a charge as a person controlling a business.


2019 Whakaari / White Island eruption, Investigation and prosecution
Each of these charges carries a maximum fine of NZ$1.5 million. Three individuals were also charged under Section 44 of the act which requires directors or individuals who have influence over a company to ensure that the company meets health and safety obligations. Each charge carries a maximum fine of NZ$300,000.


2019 Whakaari / White Island eruption, Investigation and prosecution
On 6 December 2020, Radio New Zealand reported that more than 89,000 people had signed a petition to stop the prosecution of helicopter pilots from Kahu Helicopters, Volcanic Air and Aerius who had saved lives during the eruption. In addition, the Association of Scientists has warned that the prosecution of Crown research institutions like GNS Science could have the effect of muting the scientific community and preventing the sharing of vital information during a crisis.


2019 Whakaari / White Island eruption, Investigation and prosecution
At a court hearing on 5 March 2021 the names of all the charged were officially revealed. Ten organisations and three individuals were charged under the Health and Safety at Work Act. The ten organisations were seven tourism companies (White Island Tours Limited; Volcanic Air Safaris Limited; Aerius Limited; Kahu NZ Limited; Inflite Charters Limited; I D Tours New Zealand Limited; and Tauranga Tourism Services Limited), GNS Science, the National Emergency Management Agency and Whakaari Management Ltd. The three individuals were Andrew, James and Peter Buttle, directors of Whakaari Management.


2019 Whakaari / White Island eruption, Investigation and prosecution
A number of the charges were for alleged offences between April 2016 and December 2019. None of the charges relate to events following the eruption, when some of the charged parties rescued people from the island. On 26 August 2021, the thirteen defendants pleaded not guilty to charges of health and safety breaches.


2019 Whakaari / White Island eruption, Civil lawsuits
In April 2020 legal action was commenced in Australia on behalf of relatives and Ovation passengers against the cruise-ship operator Royal Caribbean International.


2019 Whakaari / White Island eruption, Civil lawsuits
Several injured tourists filed lawsuits against the cruise liner Royal Caribbean and the New Zealand–based tour company ID Tours in the United States and Australia. American couple Matthew and Lauren Urey filed a lawsuit against Royal Caribbean and ID Tours for negligence at the Miami District Court, claiming that the defendants had ample warning that the volcano was on the brink of eruption but had failed to warn passengers who had signed up for the crater excursion.


2019 Whakaari / White Island eruption, Media coverage
The eruption and the experiences of those on the island have been depicted in various media formats, with the majority being filmed interviews and documentaries about tourists' personal experiences. The eruption was also heavily documented by day trippers and other individuals on boats surrounding the island, along with at least one member of the tour groups who took a photo of the start of the eruption with her phone. The scientific response to the eruption and the recovery mission was highlighted in a documentary.


2019 Whakaari / White Island eruption, Media coverage
Another documentary titled The Eruption; Stories of Survival was released in December 2020 and documents the eruption through survivors' accounts and interviews with family members of those who died in the eruption. Survivor accounts were also highlighted in an episode of 60 Minutes Australia, in which some survivors made accusations of inaction towards rescue efforts which potentially caused needless deaths.


2019 Whakaari / White Island eruption, Media coverage
At least one survivor is using the social media platform TikTok, to document her experiences on the island, and her immediate and continued recovery, as well as pay tribute to her father and sister who died in the erruption.


2019 Whakaari / White Island eruption, Responses
Ray Cas, a professor emeritus from Monash University, and past president of the International Association for Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior, published comments about the disaster through the Australian Science Media Centre, claiming that the incident was "a disaster waiting to happen". He felt that the island was too dangerous to allow the daily tour groups that visited.


2019 Whakaari / White Island eruption, Responses
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said that "the scale of this tragedy is devastating". On 10 December, Ardern met emergency services personnel who responded to the incident. The local member of Parliament Anne Tolley stated that the town of Whakatāne was shattered by the disaster and their thoughts were with the victims and their families but did not rule out that the tours would end due to the disaster occurring. Tolley claimed the tours were "iconic" and a "centrepiece of the town's tourism".


2019 Whakaari / White Island eruption, Responses
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison stated that "This is a very, very hard day for many families whose loved ones have been caught up in this terrible, terrible tragedy" and announced that an Australian Federal Police forensic team was sent to New Zealand to assist. The Australian Parliament House also lowered its flags at half-mast.


2019 WhatsOnStage Awards
The 19th Annual WhatsOnStage Awards concert and ceremony took place on Sunday, 3 March 2019 at the Prince of Wales Theatre.


2019 WhatsOnStage Awards
The Awards Concert was presented by Vicky Vox and Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, with performances from Carrie Hope Fletcher and the West End casts of Six and Spring Awakening.


2019 Wichita mayoral election
The 2019 Wichita mayoral election took place on November 5, 2019, to elect the mayor of Wichita, Kansas. The election is officially nonpartisan. Incumbent Jeff Longwell ran for reelection and faced Brandon Whipple in the runoff election. Whipple defeated Longwell, who conceded on election night.


2019 Wichita mayoral election, Primary campaign and election
In a contest with nine candidates, the three principal candidates who emerged were incumbent mayor Jeff Longwell, state representative Brandon Whipple, and businessman Lyndy Wells. While Longwell emphasized his track record, and plans for area development (particularly development of a new baseball stadium and team), Whipple and Wells focused on other issues, particularly the transparency in government, and promotion of local education development.


2019 Wichita mayoral election, Primary campaign and election
Whipple further prioritized "an underfunded police force. [because of] crime rising in our city." and proposed the involvement of mental health professionals in sensitive police conflict situations (a proposal similar to a program already in development at the Wichita Police Department). He also proposed re-instituting the Wichita Commission on Civil Rights, and a new "comprehensive non-discrimination ordinance expanding protections to include Military, Veterans, gender identity, gender expression, and sexual orientation."


2019 Wichita mayoral election, Primary campaign and election
In the 2019 city primary election, preliminary results put Whipple (with 5,729 votes; 25.9% of the total) second only to Mayor Longwell (who had 7,136 votes; 32.3%).


2019 Wichita mayoral election, Primary campaign and election
Candidate Lyndy Wells, however, had nearly the same number of primary votes as Whipple (only 160 votes fewer in initial returns: 5,569 votes; 25.2%), and initially delayed acceptance of the defeat in hopes that a review of 1,000 yet-uncounted ballots (including 500 provisional ballots) would turn the election to his favor. Accordingly, Whipple delayed a formal declaration of victory until the final canvass the following week. However, the final count nearly doubled Whipple's lead (6,067 votes over 5,770 for Wells;  Longwell led with 7,404).


2019 Wichita mayoral election, Run-off campaign and general election
As the two top vote-getters, Whipple and Longwell were on the November 5 ballot as the two finalists for voters to choose between in the runoff in the city's 2019 general mayoral election. During the run-off campaign, Whipple gained endorsements from the unions representing the city's police and firefighters.


2019 Wichita mayoral election, Run-off campaign and general election
In late September, a heated controversy arose over Mayor Longwell's actions to steer the city's largest-ever contract – a $500-million contract to replace the city's water-treatment facility – away from the experienced out-of-state contractor recommended by an official study, and initially approved by the City Council – towards, instead, a less-experienced Wichita contractor who relied partly on project guidance from a firm implicated in the Flint water crisis. The local contractor was headed by one of the mayor's golfing partners, who had a lengthy personal relationship with the mayor, and who had given the mayor an unreported $1,000 gift.


2019 Wichita mayoral election, Run-off campaign and general election
Longwell argued that his efforts were not simply favoritism, but an attempt to bolster "keep money in the community", but the revelation aggravated questions of transparency in government that Whipple and Wells campaigned on. An investigation by the District Attorney declined to charge Longwell, but advised him to report gifts from the contractor.


2019 Wichita mayoral election, Run-off campaign and general election
In response to the controversy, Wichita restaurateur Jon Rolph, aided by former mayors (Republican Bob Knight and Democrat Carl Brewer), launched a $10,000 campaign to persuade third-place primary loser Lyndy Wells to resume his campaign as a write-in candidate, noting that Whipple lacked experience in city affairs. Whipple countered that he had "governing experience", and Wells did not. Whipple expressed anger at the move, calling it an attack upon his candidacy to actually get Longwell elected. In late October, Wells agreed to resume his campaign (as a write-in candidate).


2019 Wichita mayoral election, Run-off campaign and general election
In October 2019, Whipple found himself the victim of an elaborate, covert, multi-state defamatory campaign in which Republican state Representative Michael Capps was implicated. After the publication of the identities of those involved in the attacks, Sedgwick County Republican party chair Dalton Glasscock called for Capps to resign. Two days before the election, Capps claimed that Glasscock had actually approved the production of the ad, an allegation which Glasscock denied. Newly created anonymous entities also attacked both Whipple and Wells weighed via several mailers.


2019 Wichita mayoral election, Run-off campaign and general election
Although the sending organizations used different names, they were all linked through a postal permit held by a Kansas City bulk-mail service. The funding of the salacious video as well as the anonymous mailers will not be required to be reported, according to the Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission. It has ruled outside organizations must report their identities and spending only if they use specific key terms such as "vote for," "elect," "vote against" or "defeat". The Democratic party was also criticized for publicly sending a mailer claiming that Longwell was being investigated by the District Attorney for "corruption".


2019 Wichita mayoral election, Run-off campaign and general election
In fact, he had just been advised to report contributions and gifts received from the contractor to which a half-billion-dollar contract had been awarded. In October 2020, Whipple, represented by former U.S. Attorney Randy Rathburn, filed suit against Capps, Wichita City Councilman James Clendenin, and Sedgwick County Commissioner Michael O'Donnell, for defamation involving the false charges made against him in the 2019 mayoral election race. Allegations cited were that the co-conspirators tried to blame the conspiracy on Glasscock or Matthew Colburn, and that, with false accusations, they further intended to generate marital discord within Whipple's own family.


2019 Wichita mayoral election, Run-off campaign and general election
The suit had originally been filed against the maker of the video, Colburn. It was dropped after Colburn provided audio, text messages, and other evidence, that had identified O'Donnell as the alleged leader of the conspiracy to defame Whipple, and who was accused for writing the script for the video frame-up,  Whipple said that he felt sorry for the then-21-year-old Colburn who had been scapegoated by the perpetrators.


2019 Wichita mayoral election, Run-off campaign and general election, Results
On election day, November 5, 2019, Longwell conceded the election to Whipple, who won 46.43% of the ballots versus 36% for Longwell. The results were certified on November 15, 2019. Write-in candidate Lyndy Wells finished third with 16.88% of the total cast.


2019 Wicklow County Council election
An election to Wicklow County Council took place on 24 May 2019 as part of the Irish local elections. 32 councillors were elected from six local electoral areas (LEAs) on the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV) for a five-year term of office.


2019 Wicklow County Council election
In 2014, there were five LEAs each electing between 6 and 8 councillors. Following the recommendations of the Local Area Boundary Committee Report in June 2018, there are now six LEAs each electing between 4 and 6 councillors. The changes were enacted by statutory instrument (S.I.) No. 638/2018.


2019 Wicklow County Council election
Fine Gael increased their seat numbers by 1 to emerge with 9 seats while Fianna Fáil retained 7 seats overall. Fianna Fáil again won 3 seats in Arklow but did secure 2 seats in Baltinglass. However they emerged seatless in both LEAs in Bray. Sinn Féin had a very disappointing election losing 4 seats to emerge 2 seats overall both in Bray the base of the TD John Brady. Several party Councillors had quit since 2014 and Gerry O'Neill and John Snell were both re-elected as Independents. The Greens gained an additional seat to return with 2 seats. Labour returned to the Council with 2 seats in Bray and Wicklow while Jennifer Whitmore won a seat for the Social Democrats in Greystones. While there were a lot of changes Independent numbers reduced by just 1 seat to 9.


2019 Wicklow County Council election, Retiring incumbents
The following members of Wicklow County Council announced in advance of the poll that they would not be seeking re-election:


2019 Wicklow Senior Football Championship
The 2019 Wicklow Senior Football Championship was the 119th edition of the Wicklow GAA's premier club Gaelic football tournament for senior graded teams in County Wicklow, Ireland. The tournament consisted of 12 teams with the winner going on to represent Wicklow in the Leinster Senior Club Football Championship. The championship consisted of a group stage before progressing onto a knock-out stage.


2019 Wicklow Senior Football Championship
St Patrick's claimed their second consecutive title, defeating Arklow Geraldines Ballymoney in the final.


2019 Wicklow Senior Football Championship
Tinahely made the straight bounce back to the top flight after claiming the previous season's I.F.C. title.


2019 Wicklow Senior Football Championship
Hollywood were relegated to the I.F.C. for 2020 after a two year stay in the top-flight.


2019 Wicklow Senior Football Championship, Team changes
The following teams have changed division since the 2018 championship season.


2019 Wicklow Senior Football Championship, Group Stage
There are two groups of six teams called Group A and B. The top finishers enter the Semi-Finals while the 2nd and 3rd placed teams in both groups enter a Quarter-Final. The bottom finishers of each group will qualify for the Relegation Final.


2019 Wicklow Senior Football Championship, Keating Trophy
The bottom two teams in each group enter the relegation process known as the Keating Trophy. 5th place from both groups play 6th place in the semi-finals. The winners proceed to the Keating Trophy final while the losers will face-off in the Relegation Final, with the ultimate loser being relegated to the I.F.C. for 2020.


2019 Widnes Vikings season
This article details the Widnes Vikings rugby league football club's 2019 season after their relegation from the Super League at the end of 2018.


2019 Wiesbaden Tennis Open
The 2019 Wiesbaden Tennis Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the eleventh edition of the tournament which was part of the 2019 ITF Women's World Tennis Tour. It took place in Wiesbaden, Germany between 29 April and 5 May 2019.


2019 Wiesbaden Tennis Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2019 Wiesbaden Tennis Open – Doubles
Hélène Scholsen and Chanel Simmonds were the defending champions, but Simmonds chose not to participate. Scholsen partnered alongside İpek Soylu, but lost to Ágnes Bukta and Julia Terziyska in the first round.


2019 Wiesbaden Tennis Open – Doubles
Anna Blinkova and Yanina Wickmayer won the title, defeating Jaimee Fourlis and Kathinka von Deichmann in the final, 6–3, 4–6, [10–3].


2019 Wiesbaden Tennis Open – Singles
Kathinka von Deichmann was the defending champion, but lost to Arantxa Rus in the second round.


2019 Wiesbaden Tennis Open – Singles
Barbora Krejčíková won the title, defeating Katarina Zavatska in the final, 6–4, 7–6(7–2).


2019 Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council election
The 2019 Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on Thursday 2 May 2019 to elect members of Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections.


2019 Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council election, Overview
Prior to the election, the composition of the council was:


2019 Wigan Warriors season
The 2019 season saw Wigan Warriors compete in the Super League, Grand Final Play offs, Challenge Cup, and the World Club Challenge.


2019 Wigan Warriors season, World Club Challenge
Winners of the 2018 Super League Grand Final, Wigan Warriors qualified to play 2018 NRL champions Sydney Roosters in the 2019 World Club Challenge. Wigan were beaten by the Australian side, retaining the title for the NRL.


2019 Wigan Warriors season, Super League, Matches
Wigan's form was split through the season. The previous year's Grand Final champions start the season in poor form winning only once in their first six games. Form improved towards the middle of the season, before a surge of good results towards the end of the season – losing only once in the last three months. Wigan finished second in the league for the second year in a row.


2019 Wigan Warriors season, Super League, Grand Final Playoffs
Finishing second in the league, Wigan qualified for the Grand Final Play-offs. The Warriors won the qualifying final, but lost in the semi-final and the preliminary final to finish third in the play-off series.


2019 Wigan Warriors season, Challenge Cup
As a "Super 8s" team of the 2018 Super League, Wigan Warriors entered the 2019 Challenge Cup in the sixth round where they we're subsequently knocked out by Warrington Wolves.


2019 Wildwater Canoeing World Championships
The 2019 Wildwater Canoeing World Championships was the 36th edition of the global wildwater canoeing competition, Wildwater Canoeing World Championships, organised by the International Canoe Federation.


2019 William & Mary Tribe football team
The 2019 William & Mary Tribe football team represented the College of William & Mary as a member of the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) in the 2019 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Tribe, led by first-year head coach Mike London, played their home games at Zable Stadium. They finished the season 5–7 overall and 3–5 in CAA play to tie for ninth place.


2019 William & Mary Tribe football team, Previous season
The Tribe finished the 2018 season 4–6, 3–4 in CAA play to finish in eighth place.


2019 William & Mary Tribe football team, Previous season
On August 5, 2018, Laycock announced that he would be retiring after the conclusion of the 2018 season. He finished at William & Mary with a 39-year record of 249–194–2.


2019 William & Mary Tribe football team, Preseason, CAA poll
In the CAA preseason poll released on July 23, 2019, the Tribe were predicted to finish in eleventh place.


2019 William & Mary Tribe football team, Preseason, Preseason All–CAA team
The Tribe had two players selected to the preseason all-CAA team.


2019 William & Mary Tribe football team, Game summaries, at Elon
The five-overtime match-up against Elon marked the longest game in school history (the Tribe had never played in a game longer than two overtimes). This contest was also the first time a new NCAA football overtime rule was used (effected in 2019): starting with the fifth overtime period, each team will line up to attempt a two-point conversion instead of snapping the ball from the 25-yard-line. William & Mary converted their attempt while Elon did not.


2019 William Jones Cup
The 2019 William Jones Cup is the 41st staging of William Jones Cup, an international basketball tournament held in Taiwan. The men's tournament was held from 12 to 21 July 2019 while the women's tournament will be contested from 24 to 28 July 2019.


2019 Wimbledon Championships
The 2019 Wimbledon Championships was a Grand Slam tennis tournament that took place at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. The main tournament began on Monday 1 July 2019 and finished on Sunday 14 July 2019.


2019 Wimbledon Championships
The defending Gentlemen's singles champion Novak Djokovic retained his title, while the defending Ladies' singles champion Angelique Kerber lost in the second round to Lauren Davis. Simona Halep won the Ladies' Singles title. This was the first Grand Slam tournament where both singles titles were won by players born in the Balkans.


2019 Wimbledon Championships
This was the first edition of the tournament to feature a standard tie break in the final set when the score in the set was 12 games all. The winner was the first player or pair to reach seven points whilst leading by two or more points or, in the case of a 6-6 point score, to establish a subsequent lead of two points. Henri Kontinen and John Peers won the first such tie break played in Wimbledon history, defeating Rajeev Ram and Joe Salisbury in a third-round men's doubles match. In men's singles, the only such match was the final in which Novak Djokovic defeated Roger Federer, in what was also the longest final in tournament history lasting for 4 hours and 58 minutes.


2019 Wimbledon Championships
Women's Singles included 16 qualifiers from 128 entrants, an increase from 12 qualifiers from 96 entrants. Doubles qualifying was eliminated as a result. The change brought the qualification for the Women's Singles into line with that for the Men's Singles, which remained unchanged.


2019 Wimbledon Championships, Tournament
The 2019 Wimbledon Championships was the 133rd edition of the tournament and was held at All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London. It was also the last regular tennis tournament to be staged before the cancellation was confirmed in 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the first such cancellation since World War II.


2019 Wimbledon Championships, Tournament
The tournament was run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and was included in the 2019 ATP Tour and the 2019 WTA Tour calendars under the Grand Slam category.


2019 Wimbledon Championships, Tournament
The tournament consisted of men's (singles and doubles), women's (singles and doubles), mixed doubles, boys (under 18 – singles and doubles) and girls (under 18 – singles and doubles), which was also a part of the Grade A category of tournaments for under 18, and singles & doubles events for men's and women's wheelchair tennis players as part of the UNIQLO Tour under the Grand Slam category, also hosting singles and doubles events for wheelchair quad tennis for the first time.


2019 Wimbledon Championships, Tournament
The tournament was played only on grass courts; main draw matches were played at the  All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, Wimbledon. Qualifying matches were played, from Monday 24 June to Thursday 27 June 2019, at the Bank of England Sports Ground, Roehampton. The Tennis Sub-Committee met to decide wild card entries on 17 June.


2019 Wimbledon Championships, Point distribution and prize money, Point distribution
Below is the tables with the point distribution for each phase of the tournament.


2019 Wimbledon Championships, Point distribution and prize money, Point distribution, Prize money
The total prize money on offer has increased for the eighth year in a row. Winners of the tournament will get the largest share of the £38m pot, up from £34m last year (+11.8%).


2019 Wimbledon Championships, Singles seeds, Gentlemen's Singles
Seeds are adjusted on a surface-based system to reflect more accurately the individual player's grass court achievement as per the following formula, which applies to the top 32 players according to the ATP Rankings on 24 June 2019:


2019 Wimbledon Championships, Singles seeds, Gentlemen's Singles
Rank and points before are as of 1 July 2019.


2019 Wimbledon Championships, Singles seeds, Gentlemen's Singles
† The player did not qualify for the tournament in 2018, but is defending points from an ATP Challenger Tour tournament.


2019 Wimbledon Championships, Singles seeds, Gentlemen's Singles
The following player would have been seeded, but withdrew before the event.


2019 Wimbledon Championships, Singles seeds, Ladies' Singles
The seeds for ladies' singles are based on the WTA rankings as of 24 June 2019. Rank and points before are as of 1 July 2019.


2019 Wimbledon Championships, Singles seeds, Ladies' Singles
† The player did not qualify for the tournament in 2018. Accordingly, points for her 16th best result are deducted instead.


2019 Wimbledon Championships, Singles seeds, Ladies' Singles
The following player would have been seeded, but withdrew from the event.


2019 Wimbledon Championships, Main draw wildcard entries
The following players will receive wild cards into the main draw senior events.


2019 Wimbledon Championships, Protected ranking
The following players were accepted directly into the main draw using a protected ranking:


2019 Wimbledon Championships, Withdrawals
The following players were accepted directly into the main tournament but withdrew with injuries or other reasons:


2019 Wimbledon Championships – Boys' Doubles
Yankı Erel and Otto Virtanen were the defending champions, but Erel was no longer eligible to participate in junior events. Virtanen was scheduled to partner Rinky Hijikata, but the pair withdrew before the tournament began.


2019 Wimbledon Championships – Boys' Doubles
Jonáš Forejtek and Jiří Lehečka won the title, defeating Liam Draxl and Govind Nanda in the final, 7−5, 6−4.


2019 Wimbledon Championships – Boys' Singles
Tseng Chun-hsin was the defending champion, but chose not to participate.


2019 Wimbledon Championships – Boys' Singles
Shintaro Mochizuki won the title, defeating Carlos Gimeno Valero in the final, 6–3, 6–2.


2019 Wimbledon Championships – Boys' Singles, Seeds
Click on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.


2019 Wimbledon Championships – Day-by-day summaries
The 2019 Wimbledon Championships are described below in detail, in the form of day-by-day summaries.


2019 Wimbledon Championships – Day-by-day summaries, Middle Sunday (7 July)
As is tradition, Middle Sunday is a day of rest and no matches are played.


2019 Wimbledon Championships – Gentlemen's Invitation Doubles
Tommy Haas and Mark Philippoussis were the defending champions, but were eliminated in the round robin competition.


2019 Wimbledon Championships – Gentlemen's Invitation Doubles
Arnaud Clément and Michaël Llodra won the title, defeating Xavier Malisse and Max Mirnyi in the final, 6–3, 1–6, [10–7].


2019 Wimbledon Championships – Girls' Doubles
Wang Xinyu and Wang Xiyu were the defending champions, but chose not to participate.


2019 Wimbledon Championships – Girls' Doubles
Savannah Broadus and Abigail Forbes won the title, defeating Kamilla Bartone and Oksana Selekhmeteva in the final, 7–5, 5–7, 6–2.


2019 Wimbledon Championships – Girls' Singles
Iga Świątek was the defending champion, but chose to compete in the women's singles competition instead. She lost to Viktorija Golubic in the first round.


2019 Wimbledon Championships – Girls' Singles
Daria Snigur won the title, defeating Alexa Noel 6−4, 6−4  in the final.


2019 Wimbledon Championships – Girls' Singles, Seeds
Click on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.


2019 Wimbledon Championships – Ladies' Invitation Doubles
Kim Clijsters and Rennae Stubbs were the defending champions but were eliminated in the round robin competition when they withdrew from their third match.


2019 Wimbledon Championships – Ladies' Invitation Doubles
Cara Black and Martina Navratilova won the title, defeating Marion Bartoli and Daniela Hantuchová in the final, 6–0, 3–6, [10–8].


2019 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Doubles
Mike Bryan and Jack Sock were the defending champions, but Sock could not participate due to injury. Mike Bryan played alongside his brother Bob, but lost in the third round to Nicolas Mahut and Édouard Roger-Vasselin.


2019 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Doubles
Juan Sebastián Cabal and Robert Farah won the title and jointly attained the ATP number one doubles ranking, defeating Mahut and Roger-Vasselin in the final, 6–7(5–7), 7–6(7–5), 7–6(8–6), 6–7(5–7), 6–3. Mike Bryan, Łukasz Kubot and Bruno Soares were also in contention for the top ranking at the start of the tournament. Cabal and Farah had saved five match points earlier in the tournament against Jean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tecău in the quarterfinals.


2019 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Doubles
This was the first Wimbledon where a final set tie break rule was introduced. Upon reaching 12–12 in the fifth set, a classic tie break would be played. Henri Kontinen and John Peers won the first final set tie break played in any match in Wimbledon history, defeating Rajeev Ram and Joe Salisbury in the third round.


2019 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Doubles
This was the sixth consecutive Grand Slam where the men's doubles event was won by a pair of players from the same nation.


2019 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Doubles, Seeds
Click on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.


2019 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles
Defending champion Novak Djokovic successfully defended his title, defeating Roger Federer in the final, 7–6(7–5), 1–6, 7–6(7–4), 4–6, 13–12(7–3) to win the Gentlemen's Singles tennis title at the 2019 Wimbledon Championships. At four hours and 58 minutes in length, it was the longest singles final in Wimbledon history. It was Djokovic's fifth Wimbledon title and 16th major title overall. Djokovic became the first man since Bob Falkenburg in 1948 to win the title after being championship points down, having saved two when down 7–8 in the fifth set.


2019 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles
This was the first time since the 2004 French Open that a man saved championship points in order to win a major. Djokovic became the second man and third singles player overall to win multiple Grand Slam titles after saving match point during the tournament, after Rod Laver and Serena Williams. Conversely, this was the third time that an opponent of Federer saved match points and went on to win the major, following Marat Safin in the 2005 Australian Open and Djokovic in the 2011 US Open.


2019 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles
This was the first Wimbledon where a final set tie break rule was introduced. Upon reaching 12–12 in the fifth set, a classic tie break would be played. The men's singles final was the first final, as well as the first singles match at Wimbledon, in which the new rule came into effect, with Djokovic winning the tie break 7–3. Additionally it was the first men's singles final at any major to feature a final-set, championship-deciding tiebreak.


2019 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles
This tournament also marked the final professional appearance for former Australian Open finalist Marcos Baghdatis; he lost in the second round.


2019 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles, Seeds
Click on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.


2019 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles Final
The 2019 Wimbledon Championships Men's Singles final was the championship tennis match of the Men's Singles tournament at the 2019 Wimbledon Championships. A significant part of the Djokovic–Federer rivalry, it pitted Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer against each other in a Grand Slam final for the fifth time.


2019 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles Qualifying
Players who neither have high enough rankings nor receive wild cards may participate in a qualifying tournament held one week before the annual Wimbledon Tennis Championships.


2019 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles final
The 2019 Wimbledon men's singles final was the championship tennis match of the men's singles tournament at the 2019 Wimbledon Championships. After 4 hours and 57 minutes, first seed Novak Djokovic defeated second seed Roger Federer in five sets to win the title in a repeat of the 2014 and the 2015 Wimbledon finals. The match was the longest final in the history of Wimbledon.


2019 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles final, Overview
Novak Djokovic was the defending champion and successfully defended his title, defeating Roger Federer in 4 hours and 57 minutes, 7–6(5), 1–6, 7–6(4), 4–6, 13–12(3), the longest singles final in Wimbledon history and the second longest Grand Slam final in history behind only the 2012 Australian Open final (which Djokovic also won).


2019 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles final, Overview
Djokovic became the first man since Bob Falkenburg in the 1948 Wimbledon Championships to win the title after being championship points down, having saved two when down 7−8 in the fifth set. Djokovic also became the first man since Gastón Gaudio at the 2004 French Open to save championship points in order to win a Grand Slam title, and the first time that any singles player, male or female, has saved a championship point to win a Grand Slam title since 2005 Wimbledon.


2019 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles final, Overview
Djokovic became the second man and third singles player overall to win multiple Grand Slam titles after saving match point during the tournament, after Rod Laver and Serena Williams; his previous time doing it was also against Federer, that being in the 2011 US Open semi-finals, after which he defeated Rafael Nadal in the final.


2019 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles final, Overview
The match is also notable for the fact that Federer lost despite statistically outplaying Djokovic in almost every category (see table below): having a better first- and second-serve percentage, more aces, fewer double-faults, more winners, more breaks of serve and a more efficient break-point conversion rate, more points won when returning serve and at a higher efficiency, and won a higher total number of points and service games. Besides the final scoreline, the only statistical categories Djokovic won were having fewer unforced errors and all the tiebreaks that occurred.


2019 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles final, Overview
This was the first Wimbledon where a final set tie break rule was introduced. Upon reaching 12–all in the fifth set, a classic tie break would be played. The men's singles final was the first final, as well as the first singles match, in which the new rule came into effect, with Djokovic winning the tiebreak 7−3. This match was named the greatest men's tennis match of the 2010s by Tennis Magazine.


2019 Wimbledon Championships – Mixed Doubles
Alexander Peya and Nicole Melichar were the defending champions, but Peya could not participate this year due to injury. Melichar played alongside Bruno Soares but lost in the quarterfinals to Yang Zhaoxuan and Matwé Middelkoop.


2019 Wimbledon Championships – Mixed Doubles
Ivan Dodig and Latisha Chan won the title, defeating Robert Lindstedt and Jeļena Ostapenko in the final, 6–2, 6–3.


2019 Wimbledon Championships – Mixed Doubles
This was the first Wimbledon to feature a final set tie-break. Upon reaching 12–12 in the third set, a classic tie-break would be played.


2019 Wimbledon Championships – Mixed Doubles, Seeds
Click on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.


2019 Wimbledon Championships – Senior Gentlemen's Invitation Doubles
Jonas Björkman and Todd Woodbridge were the defending champions and successfully defended their title, defeating Jacco Eltingh and Paul Haarhuis in the final, 4−6, 6−3, [10−6].


2019 Wimbledon Championships – Wheelchair Men's Doubles
Joachim Gérard and Stefan Olsson  defeated three-time defending champions Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid 6−4, 6−2 in the finals to win their first Wimbledon wheelchair men's doubles title as a pair. This is also Olsson's second Wimbledon wheelchair men's doubles title.


2019 Wimbledon Championships – Wheelchair Men's Singles
Stefan Olsson was the two-time defending champion; however, he lost in the semifinals to Shingo Kunieda.


2019 Wimbledon Championships – Wheelchair Men's Singles
Gustavo Fernández won the title, defeating Kunieda in the final, 4–6, 6–3, 6–2.


2019 Wimbledon Championships – Wheelchair Quad Doubles
This is the first official edition of the quad wheelchair doubles event at the Wimbledon Championships, as the 2018 edition was held as an exhibition match.


2019 Wimbledon Championships – Wheelchair Quad Doubles
Andrew Lapthorne and David Wagner were the defending champions, but chose not to participate together. Lapthorne plays alongside Dylan Alcott, while Wagner teams up with Koji Sugeno.


2019 Wimbledon Championships – Wheelchair Quad Doubles
Alcott and Lapthorne defeated Wagner and Sugeno 6−2, 7−6(7−4) to become the first ever Wimbledon wheelchair Quad Doubles champions.


2019 Wimbledon Championships – Wheelchair Quad Singles
This was the first edition of the quad wheelchair singles event at the Wimbledon Championships.


2019 Wimbledon Championships – Wheelchair Quad Singles
Dylan Alcott became the first quad wheelchair singles champion at the Championships, defeating Andrew Lapthorne in the final, 6−0, 6−2. With this win, Alcott completed the Career Golden Slam.


2019 Wimbledon Championships – Wheelchair Women's Doubles
Diede de Groot and Yui Kamiji were the defending champions, but chose not to participate together. De Groot played alongside Aniek van Koot and successfully defended the title, defeating Marjolein Buis and Giulia Capocci in the final, 6−1, 6−1. Kamiji teamed up with Jordanne Whiley, but lost in the semifinals to de Groot and van Koot.


2019 Wimbledon Championships – Wheelchair Women's Singles
Diede de Groot was the two-time defending champion, but lost in the final to Aniek van Koot, 4–6, 6–4, 5–7.


2019 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Doubles
Barbora Krejčíková and Kateřina Siniaková were the defending champions, but lost in the semifinals to Gabriela Dabrowski and Xu Yifan.


2019 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Doubles
Hsieh Su-wei and Barbora Strýcová won the title, defeating Dabrowski and Xu in the final, 6−2, 6−4. In doing so, Strýcová attained the WTA no. 1 doubles ranking for the first time. Kristina Mladenovic, Elise Mertens and Ashleigh Barty were also in contention for the top ranking at the start of the tournament. Hsieh and Strýcová won the title without losing a set in the entire tournament.


2019 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Doubles
This was the first Wimbledon to feature a final set tie break rule. Upon reaching 12–12 in the third set, a standard tie-break would be played where the winners would be the first to reach at least seven points and lead by two points.


2019 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Doubles
Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Samantha Stosur were bidding to complete the Career Grand Slam in doubles, but lost in the second and third round, respectively.


2019 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Doubles, Seeds
Click on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.


2019 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles
Simona Halep defeated Serena Williams in the final, 6–2, 6–2 to win the Ladies' Singles tennis title at the 2019 Wimbledon Championships. It took just 56 minutes for Halep to secure victory where she committed only 3 unforced errors, the fewest on record in a Grand Slam final. In the entire tournament, she dropped only one set, against compatriot Mihaela Buzărnescu. Williams was attempting to equal Margaret Court's all-time record of 24 Grand Slam singles titles for the third time. At 37 years and 291 days, Williams became the oldest Grand Slam women's singles finalist to compete since the start of the Open Era in 1968.


2019 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles
Angelique Kerber was the defending champion, but lost in the second round to Lauren Davis. This was the first time in Open Era history that a defending Major champion lost to a lucky loser.


2019 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles
Halep became the first Romanian female player to reach and win the Wimbledon final. Romanian players previously won 8 Open Era titles at Wimbledon, but none in senior singles. Ilie Năstase lost two senior singles finals in 1972 and 1976. The only other Romanian woman to have previously held a trophy here is Ioana Gașpar, back in 2000 when she was only a junior.


2019 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles
This was the first Major tournament in which Ashleigh Barty competed as the WTA world No. 1. She retained this ranking following the end of the tournament despite being upset by Alison Riske in the fourth round. Naomi Osaka, Karolína Plíšková, Kiki Bertens and Petra Kvitová were also in contention for the top ranking at the start of the tournament.


2019 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles
15-year old Coco Gauff became the youngest player to win a main draw singles match at Wimbledon since Jennifer Capriati in 1991, defeating the oldest player in the main draw, Venus Williams at 39, in the first round. Gauff was also the youngest qualifier in Wimbledon history. She was defeated by eventual champion Halep in the fourth round.


2019 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles
Karolína Muchová became the first player to reach the quarterfinals of Wimbledon in their debut since Li Na in 2006, after defeating Plíšková in the fourth round.


2019 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles
This was the first Wimbledon where a final set tie break rule was introduced. Upon reaching 12–12 in the third set, a classic tie break would be played. No women's singles match required the use of the final set tie break.


2019 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles, Seeds
Click on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.


2019 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles Qualifying
Players who neither have high enough rankings nor receive wild cards may participate in a qualifying tournament held one week before the annual Wimbledon Tennis Championships.


2019 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles Qualifying
This is the first time the Wimbledon women's singles event will have 16 qualifiers, following the example set by the US Open. Wimbledon previously had 12 qualifiers in the women's draw.


2019 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles Qualifying
Cori Gauff became the youngest qualifier to reach the main draw at Wimbledon in the Open Era at 15 years and 122 days old.


2019 Winchester City Council election
Elections to Winchester City Council took place on Thursday 2 May 2019, alongside other local elections across the country. The Conservatives Party held a narrow majority of one at the last election, with the seats contested in this election being last contested in 2016 election. The Conservatives defended 10 seats, whilst the Liberal Democrats defended 4. Town and parish councils in the city boundary were also up for election.


2019 Winchester City Council election, Background
Prior to the election, the Conservatives had held overall control of Winchester City Council since 2015, with the Liberal Democrats having last controlled the council between 2010 and 2011. No other parties have held seats in Winchester since the 2016 election, in which the boundaries were redrawn. In June 2018, after the previous election, one Conservative councillor left the party to sit as an independent over concerns about redevelopment of the city. In July, a Liberal Democrat councillor, who had previously defected from the Conservatives, defected back to the Conservatives after disputes about the leadership of the council; subsequently the independent councillor joined the Liberal Democrats. The statement of persons nominated for the 2019 election was revealed 4 April 2019.


2019 Winchester City Council election, Election results
As the council is elected in thirds, one councillor for each of the 16 wards are elected each year. All comparisons in wards and swing are to the corresponding 2016 election (when the current boundaries were created), whilst the council as a whole is to the 2018 election. A total of 40,317 votes were cast, with a turnout of 45.10%. This was the best result for the Liberal Democrats for around fifteen years. Labour's vote also fell, whilst the Greens' rose.


2019 Winchester City Council election, Election results
The next election was scheduled to take place in May 2020, one year later, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, were delayed until 2021, where they were scheduled to take place at the same time of those already planned, which in the context of Winchester included the next Hampshire County Council Election.


2019 Winchester City Council election, Election results
After the previous election and immediately prior to this election, the composition of the council was:


2019 Winchester City Council election, Election results
After the election result, the composition of the council became:


2019 Windsor and Maidenhead Borough Council election
The 2019 Windsor and Maidenhead Borough Council election took place on Thursday 2 May 2019. That was the same day as other United Kingdom local elections in order to elect members of Windsor and Maidenhead Council in Berkshire, England. The whole council was up for election.


2019 Windsor and Maidenhead Borough Council election, Background
The Independent Local Government Boundary Commission for England carried out an electoral review of the Royal Borough with the view to change our electoral arrangements from May 2019. The Commission announced the number of councillors was to reduce and also looked into the number of wards, their names and boundaries. This reduced the number of councillors from 57 to 41.


2019 Winnipeg Blue Bombers season
The 2019 Winnipeg Blue Bombers season was the 62nd season for the team in the Canadian Football League (CFL) and their 87th season overall. This was the sixth season under head coach Mike O'Shea and the sixth full season under general manager Kyle Walters. The Blue Bombers qualified for the playoffs for the fourth consecutive season on September 21, 2019 following an Ottawa Redblacks loss. The club later would go on to win their 11th Grey Cup championship and their first since the 1990 Grey Cup championship game, ending what was the longest active Grey Cup drought.


2019 Winnipeg Blue Bombers season, Offseason, Foreign drafts
For the first time in its history, the CFL held drafts for foreign players from Mexico and Europe. Like all other CFL teams, the Blue Bombers held three non-tradeable selections in the 2019 CFL–LFA Draft, which took place on January 14, 2019. The 2019 European CFL Draft took place on April 11, 2019 where all teams held one non-tradeable pick.


2019 Winnipeg Blue Bombers season, Offseason, CFL Draft
The 2019 CFL Draft took place on May 2, 2019. The Blue Bombers held nine selections in the eight-round draft after acquiring the BC Lions' first-round pick in a trade which included their own first-round pick from the 2018 CFL Draft.


2019 Winnipeg Blue Bombers season, Team, Roster
Italics indicate American playersBold indicates Global players updated 2019-11-24 • 46 Active, 9 One-game Injured,4 Six-game Injured, 12 Practice


2019 Winnipeg National Bank Challenger
The 2019 Winnipeg National Bank Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 4th edition of the tournament and part of the 2019 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada between July 8 and July 14, 2019.


2019 Winnipeg National Bank Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2019 Winnipeg National Bank Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following player received entry into the singles main draw using a protected ranking:


2019 Winnipeg National Bank Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received entry into the singles main draw as alternates:


2019 Winnipeg National Bank Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received entry into the singles main draw using their ITF World Tennis Ranking:


2019 Winnipeg National Bank Challenger – Doubles
Marc-Andrea Hüsler and Sem Verbeek were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.


2019 Winnipeg National Bank Challenger – Doubles
Darian King and Peter Polansky won the title after defeating Hunter Reese and Adil Shamasdin 7–6(10–8), 6–3 in the final.


2019 Winnipeg National Bank Challenger – Singles
Jason Kubler was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.


2019 Winnipeg National Bank Challenger – Singles
Norbert Gombos won the title after defeating Brayden Schnur 7–6(7–3), 6–3 in the final.


2019 Winston-Salem Open
The 2019 Winston–Salem Open was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 51st edition of the Winston-Salem Open (as successor to previous tournaments in New Haven and Long Island), and part of the ATP Tour 250 Series of the 2019 ATP Tour. It took place at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States, from August 18 through August 24, 2019. It was the last event on the 2019 US Open Series before the 2019 US Open.


2019 Winston-Salem Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2019 Winston-Salem Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received entry using a protected ranking into the singles main draw:


2019 Winston-Salem Open, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2019 Winston-Salem Open – Doubles
Jean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tecău were the two-time defending champions, but chose not to participate this year.


2019 Winston-Salem Open – Doubles
Łukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo won the title, defeating Nicholas Monroe and Tennys Sandgren, 6–7(6–8), 6–1, [10–3].


2019 Winston-Salem Open – Singles
Daniil Medvedev was the defending champion, but chose not to participate this year.


2019 Winston-Salem Open – Singles
Hubert Hurkacz won his first ATP Tour title, defeating Benoît Paire in the final, 6–3, 3–6, 6–3. Hurkacz became the first Polish man to win a Tour-level singles title since Wojtek Fibak in 1982.


2019 Winston-Salem Open – Singles
Lee Duck-hee become the first deaf player to win a main draw match on the ATP Tour when he defeated Henri Laaksonen in the first round.


2019 Winston-Salem Open – Singles, Seeds
Click on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.


2019 Winter Cup
The 2019 Winter Cup was an artistic gymnastics competition held at the South Point Hotel, Casino & Spa in Las Vegas from February 15 to February 17, 2019.


2019 Winter Cup, Competition
The competition featured both junior and senior competitive divisions. The finals session featured the top 28 senior athletes and the top 14 junior athletes. Junior athletes advanced to the finals according to the all-around ranking from the first day of competition. All-around ranking and individual event champions were determined via a combined two-day score.


2019 Winter Deaflympics
The 2019 Winter Deaflympics (Italian: 2019 Olimpiadi invernali per non udenti) , officially known as the 19th Winter Deaflympics or XIX Winter Deaflympics (Italian: 19° Olimpiadi invernali per sordi)  , was the 19th edition of the Winter Deaflympics, and took place between the 12th-21st of December in Sondrio Province in Northern Italy. The opening ceremony was held in Sondrio on 12 December and curling competition began a day prior to the start of the Winter Deaflympics. Sporting events apart from curling commenced on 13 December.


2019 Winter Deaflympics
36 events took place in 6 sports: alpine skiing, chess, cross-country skiing, curling, ice hockey and snowboarding. Initially 32 sporting events were slated to be held but three more events were added to the competition by the organisers due to the inclusion of chess, which was a surprise move. Chess made its debut at the 2019 Winter Deaflympics.


2019 Winter Deaflympics
The 19th Deaflympics were the second time Italy hosted the event, previously hosting the 1983 games in Madonna di Campiglio. The Deaflympics was organised by the Federazione Sport Sordi Italia, the national deaf sports federation in Italy, affiliated with the International Committee of Sports for the Deaf.


2019 Winter Deaflympics, Background
The hosting of the event raised concerns in May 2018 following the house arrest of former ICSD President Valery Rukhledev in 23 May 2018 regarding the embezzlement of $803,800 from the All-Russian Society of the Deaf while he was serving as the post of the society as well as the post of ICSD President. Valery Rukhledev later stepped down from the position on 31 July 2018 and he later replaced by Australian Rebecca Adam for the ICSD Presidential position on 1 August 2018 causing further controversy as top Deaf sports movements criticised the appointment of Rebecca Adam without proper consent and approval.


2019 Winter Deaflympics, Background
On 13 September 2018, on a press release the newly appointed ICSD President Rebecca Adam confirmed that the Winter Deaflympic event would take place as planned and scheduled during December 2019.


2019 Winter Deaflympics, Bidding
It was revealed that in around 2017, former ICSD President Valery Rukhledev had encouraged and requested an application for Almaty, Kazakhstan, after the successful 2017 Winter Universiade, held at the city. However Almaty had not submitted its application to host Winter Deaflympics and instead Italy was chosen as the host country.


2019 Winter Deaflympics, Bidding
After the ousting of Valery Rukhledev, on 14 June 2018, the ICSD and FSSI had a meeting and unanimously agreed to support to stage the 2019 Winter Deaflympics in Italy despite the crisis in the administration of ICSD which started from May 2018.


2019 Winter Deaflympics, The Games, Opening ceremony
The opening ceremony was held on 12 December 2019. The event was officially opened by the Sondrio Province mayor Marco Scaramellini and Italian singer Silvia Mezzanotte sung the national anthem of host country, Italy. Former three time alpine skiing Olympic gold medalist Deborah Compagnoni was invited as special guest during the opening ceremony.


2019 Winter Deaflympics, The Games, Venues
Three venues were selected to host the sporting events. Santa Caterina di Valfurva hosts three sporting disciplines such as alpine skiing, snowboarding and cross-country skiing. Madesimo hosts curling competitions while Chiavenna was chosen to host ice hockey and chess events.


2019 Winter Deaflympics, Sports
The 2019 Winter Deaflympics featured 36 events over 6 sports. Chess was the only new event, and all other sporting events which were part of the 2015 edition were retained. The original idea was that there was a women's ice hockey tournament, but the International Committee of Sports for the Deaf has cancelled the event due to the low number of countries registered on it.


2019 Winter Universiade
The 2019 Winter Universiade (Russian: Зимняя Универсиада 2019), the XXIX Universiade, was an international student and youth competition, which took place from 2–12 March 2019 in the Russian city of Krasnoyarsk. The 2019 Winter Universiade was the third Universiade hosted in Russia and second as an independent country. The first Universiade, when Russia was a Soviet Republic, was hosted by Moscow in 1973, whereas Kazan, capital of the Republic of Tatarstan, hosted the 2013 Summer Universiade. It is the first Winter Universiade hosted by Russia, and the second time that the event was held in a former USSR republic (the other being the 2017 Universiade in Almaty).


2019 Winter Universiade
Krasnoyarsk was unanimously elected as the host city of the 29th Winter Universiade 2019 by an Executive Committee meeting in Brussels on 9 November 2013. At the Opening Ceremony the fire was lit by two of the event's ambassadors, bandy player Sergey Lomanov and former artistic gymnast Svetlana Khorkina.


2019 Winter Universiade
For the first time in Universiade history, bandy and ski-orienteering were included as optional sports. Bandy had bigger spectator crowds than any other sport. The budget of the 2019 Universiade in Krasnoyarsk equalled 67.8 billion rubles (1.021 billion US dollars): 43.3 billion rubles from the federal budget, 24.5 billion rubles from the budget of the Krasnoyarsk Krai. Russia won a record of 41 gold and 112 overall medals, while South Korea placed second with 6 and 14, respectively. Japan was third, winning 5 gold and 13 overall medals.


2019 Winter Universiade, Bidding campaign and host city selection
On 1 September 2012, the bidding campaign for the right to host the 2019 Winter and Summer Universiades was launched. On the same day, the Russian Students Sport Union (RSSU) sent a letter to the President of the International University Sports Federation (FISU), Mr. Claude-Louis Galen, about Krasnoyarsk's intention to apply for the right to host the Winter Universiade 2019. The choice of the city was primarily determined by the desire and capability of the territory of Krasnoyarsk to host the University Games. The capital of the Krasnoyarsk Krai, it is one of the country's student centres with the Siberian Federal University located there.


2019 Winter Universiade, Bidding campaign and host city selection
On 3 April 2013, FISU, officially confirmed two candidate cities:


2019 Winter Universiade, Bidding campaign and host city selection
During the whole year, each applicant worked on the preparation of application dosier. On 14 September 2013, Krasnoyarsk presented its Bidding Book at the FISU headquarters and received the status of a candidate city. The only competitor at this stage, the Canton of Valais, withdrew from candidacy.


2019 Winter Universiade, Bidding campaign and host city selection
On 9 November 2013, in Brussels, FISU members elected Krasnoyarsk as the host city of the 29th Winter Universiade 2019 by a closed vote.


2019 Winter Universiade, Brands, Logo
In accordance with the requirements of the International University Sports Federation (FISU), the logo of the Winter Universiade 2019 was made based on the Latin letter "U" – the first letter of the word "Universiade", with the city name in English and the year the Games take place – Krasnoyarsk 2019, the sequence number and the name of the event in English – 29th Winter Universiade, as well as 5 stars in blue, yellow, black, green and red colors – elements of the FISU logo.


2019 Winter Universiade, Brands, Logo
The "U" letter in the logo of the Winter Universiade Krasnoyarsk 2019 symbolizes the ice block, the irregular facets of which demonstrate the severe character of Siberian nature, peaks of rocks and snow-covered slopes.


2019 Winter Universiade, Brands, Slogans
The main slogan of the Games was "Настоящая зима" or "Real Winter," revealing the essence of the Winter Universiade 2019 idea. It is not accidental that the first Winter Universiade in Russia took place in 2019 in Krasnoyarsk – the geographical center of Siberia. Russia is the biggest country in the world by area, with long and severe winters on the most part of its territory. Foreigners often associate Russia with "frost" and "winter."


2019 Winter Universiade, Brands, Slogans
Two additional slogans were officially used: "100% зима" or "100% Winter," which was used together with any of the slogans or independently as a chevron, stripe or patch on clothes; and  "Добро пожаловать в зиму!" or "Welcome to Winter!," which was used in advertising campaigns.


2019 Winter Universiade, Brands, Mascot
The official mascot of the Winter Universiade 2019 is "U-Laika", a Siberian dog of the Laika breed, the symbol of loyalty, friendliness, joy and unbridled energy. Laika is a friend always ready to help in hard times and support in striving to any, even the most trying goal.


2019 Winter Universiade, Brands, Mascot, Countdown Clock
On 5 June 2016, the countdown clock of the Winter Universiade 2019 was launched on the Yenisei river embankment in Krasnoyarsk. The countdown started from 1,000 days. The screen shows the exact number of days, hours, minutes and seconds before the official opening ceremony of the Games in Krasnoyarsk.


2019 Winter Universiade, Brands, Mascot, Countdown Clock
On 18 October 2017, 500 days until the start of the Winter Universiade 2019, the countdown clock of the University Games was unveiled with the participation of Russian Minister of Sport Pavel Kolobkov, acting Chairman of the Regional Government Viktor Tomenko, Director General of the Executive Directorate of the 29th Winter Universiade 2019 Maxim Urazov, and Ambassadors of the Winter Universiade 2019 Svetlana Khorkina, Ilia Averbukh and Zlata Demyanova. The clock became the second art object of the Winter Universiade 2019 in Krasnoyarsk, and a new attraction site of the Funpark Bobrovy Log.


2019 Winter Universiade, Preparation
The management system of the Winter Universiade 2019 consists of four main levels: Organising Committee, Executive Directorate, Supervisory Board, Coordinating Council.


2019 Winter Universiade, Preparation
The budget of the 2019 Universiade in Krasnoyarsk equalled 67.8 billion rubles (1.021 billion US dollars): 43.3 billion rubles from the federal budget and 24.5 billion rubles from the budget of the Krasnoyarsk Krai.


2019 Winter Universiade, Preparation, Organising Committee
The Organising Committee for the preparation and delivery of the 2019 Winter Universiade was created by the Resolution of the Government of the Russian Federation from 18 February 2014, No. 219.


2019 Winter Universiade, Preparation, Organising Committee
Initially the Organising Committee was headed by the Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Vitaly Mutko. He was replaced by Olga Golodets in December 2018.


2019 Winter Universiade, Preparation, Organising Committee
The Organising Committee was formed by representatives of the state authorities of the Russian Federation and the Krasnoyarsk Krai. The Organizing Committee made important decisions regarding the Universiade organization and preparation; it approved the plan of organizational measures and the list of the Winter Universiade 2019 venues.


2019 Winter Universiade, Preparation, Organising Committee
The organizational and technical support of the Organising Committee was entrusted to the Ministry of Sport.


2019 Winter Universiade, Venues
The list of main venues was approved by the Organizing Committee of the Winter Universiade 2019.


2019 Winter Universiade, Venues, Universiade Village
The Universiade Village located on the territory of the campus of the Siberian Federal University, close to Nikolayevskaya Sopka and most alpine skiing venues:


2019 Winter Universiade, Sports
There were events in eleven sports. Athletes competed for 76 sets of awards in 11 sports: alpine skiing, bandy, biathlon, cross-country skiing, curling, figure skating, freestyle skiing, ice hockey, short track, ski orienteering, snowboarding.


2019 Winter Universiade, Sports
For the first time in Universiade history, bandy and ski-orienteering were included as optional sports. Freestyle skiing was another optional sport at this Universiade.


2019 Winter Universiade, Participating nations
58 national university sports federations sent at least an athlete for the 2019 Winter Universiade. The Philippines and the United Arab Emirates made their debut in Winter Universiade while Ukraine boycotted the event due to the Ukrainian government refusal to fund Ukrainian athletes competing in tournaments being held in Russia.


2019 Winter Universiade, Medal table
Russia won a record of 41 gold and 111 overall medals, while South Korea placed second with 6 and 14, respectively. Japan was third, winning 5 gold and 13 overall medals.


2019 Winter Universiade, Dedicated stamps
On 2 March 2018 four postage stamps from the "29th Winter Universiade 2019 Krasnoyarsk. Sports venues" series were issued by the Russian Post. In addition to sports arenas, each stamp depicts the emblem of the Winter Universiade 2019.


2019 Winter Universiade, Opening ceremony
The Opening ceremony was held at Platinum Arena and ran from 20:19 to 22:47 pm local time (Krasnoyarsk Time). It was officially opened by President of Russia Vladimir Putin.


2019 Winter Universiade, Opening ceremony
The opening ceremony featured scenes with paintings of Vasily Surikov, who was born in Krasnoyarsk. In one of those his "Capture of a Snow Town" was used. The folk song "Valenki" was performed by Nyusha for the upcoming Maslenitsa. Then, singer Zara sang a lullaby on a golden moon. Also in the ceremony famous Siberians such as writer Viktor Astafyev, painter Andrey Pozdeyev and opera singer Dmitry Khvorostovsky were mentioned. The final part featured figure skater Alexei Yagudin.


2019 Winter Universiade, Opening ceremony
The fire was lit via a bandy ball, for the first time in history.


2019 Winter Universiade, Closing ceremony
The closing ceremony was held at the Platinum Arena from 20:00 to 21:30 pm local time (Krasnoyarsk Time) on 12 March 2019 which handed over the FISU flag to the next host city of Lucerne, Switzerland for the next edition in 2021.


2019 Winton SuperSprint
The 2019 Winton SuperSprint was a motor racing event for the Supercars Championship, held on 24-26 May 2019. The event was held at the Winton Motor Raceway near Benalla, Victoria and consisted of two races of 120 and 200 kilometres in length. It was the sixth round of fifteen in the 2019 Supercars Championship and hosted Races 13 and 14 of the season.


2019 Winton SuperSprint
DJR Team Penske's Scott McLaughlin won both races, further extending his championship lead.


2019 Winton SuperSprint, Report, Background, Entry alterations
The event was open to wildcard entries which saw the grid expand to twenty-five cars. Brad Jones Racing entered a Holden Commodore ZB for Jack Smith, who made his second event start in the Supercars Championship, following his wildcard entry at the 2019 Tasmania SuperSprint.


2019 Winton SuperSprint, Report, Background, Entry alterations
Richie Stanaway withdrew from the event following Race 13 due to a neck injury. He was replaced for the remainder of the event by nominated endurance co-driver Chris Pither.


2019 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election
The 2019 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 2 May 2019 to elect members of Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council in England. This election was held on the same day as other local elections.


2019 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election, Election results, Results by constituency, Birkenhead constituency
Birkenhead consists of the wards of Bidston and St James, Birkenhead and Tranmere, Claughton, Oxton, Prenton and Rock Ferry.


2019 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election, Election results, Results by constituency, Wallasey constituency
Wallasey consists of the wards of Leasowe and Moreton East, Liscard, Moreton West and Saughall Massie, New Brighton, Seacombe and Wallasey.


2019 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election, Election results, Results by constituency, Wirral South constituency
Wirral South consists of the wards of Bebington, Bromborough, Clatterbridge, Eastham, and Heswall.


2019 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election, Election results, Results by constituency, Wirral West constituency
Wirral West consists of the wards of Greasby, Frankby and Irby, Hoylake and Meols, Pensby and Thingwall, Upton, and West Kirby and Thurstaston.


2019 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election, Election results, Changes in council composition
Prior to the election the composition of the council was:


2019 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election, Election results, Proportionality
The disproportionality of the 2019 election was 9.56 using the Gallagher Index.


2019 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election, Parties and candidates, Contesting political parties
At the last regular election (2018), The Conservatives, Greens and Labour all ran a full slate of candidates with the Liberal Democrats contesting all but one of the seats available with other parties only putting forward a handful of candidates between them.


2019 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election, Parties and candidates, Candidate selection
The Green Party selected Steve Hayes on 13 June 2018 to contest the seat of Birkenhead and Tranmere after Pat Cleary was re-elected in May.


2019 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election, Parties and candidates, Candidate selection
On 17 September, incumbent Hoylake and Meols councillor of 20 years Gerry Ellis announced that he had been deselected by the Conservative Party. Ellis appealed against the deselection, claiming he had been "unlawfully" discriminated against because of his age. In December, Alison Wright was announced as the new Conservative candidate.


2019 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election, Parties and candidates, Candidate selection
On 17 October, Phil Davies announced in a party email that he would stand down as Council Leader in May as well as not seeking re-election for his Birkenhead and Tranmere seat after serving on Wirral Council for over 27 years.


2019 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election, Parties and candidates, Candidate selection
Labour's selection process began in October with the left targeting seats such as Liscard, Bidston and St James, Pensby and Thingwall, Rock Ferry and New Brighton. Both Ron Abbey (Leasowe and Moreton East) and Chris Meaden (Rock Ferry) were not selected. Bernie Mooney's re-selection for Liscard was questioned due to apparent irregularities in the selection process. Her candidacy was upheld by the regional party. However, on 27 February she was found to be in breach of Labour rules and subsequently removed from the panel of candidates by the Local Campaign Forum.


2019 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election, Parties and candidates, Candidate selection
TUSC suspended their electoral activity in November so did not put forward any candidates.


2019 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election, Parties and candidates, Candidate selection
In January, Meaden resigned the Labour whip and sought re-election as an independent.


2019 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election, Parties and candidates, Target seats
Labour targeted Eastham and Wallasey and hoped to hold on to Pensby and Thingwall and Oxton, the latter of which was held by the Liberal Democrats in the subsequent two elections.


2019 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election, Parties and candidates, Target seats
The Conservatives' main target seat was Pensby and Thingwall, which they lost by just 23 votes in 2018.


2019 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election, Parties and candidates, Target seats
The Liberal Democrats hoped to regain a third councillor in Oxton, and the Greens were looking to take a second in Birkenhead and Tranmere and to make headways in Prenton.


2019 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election, Parties and candidates, Campaign
On 26 March, Wirral Labour criticised the Conservatives for starting a Crowdfunder page for the election which had, so far, raised £20. This came despite itself having used crowdfunding with Tory leader Ian Lewis saying that they [Labour] needed to "get with the programme".


2019 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election, Parties and candidates, Campaign
Outgoing Oxton councillor Paul Doughty was suspended from Labour in April due to campaigning for the Independent Group.


2019 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election, Parties and candidates, Campaign
Representatives from all four parties in Council as well as the Independent Group appeared on Sunday Politics North West on 7 April talking about the issues facing the election campaign. Particular attention was given to the Green belt as well as the alleged rifts in the local Labour Party.


2019 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election, Parties and candidates, Campaign
Leasowe and Moreton East Conservative candidate Debbie Caplin was criticised by Labour for comments she made to The Observer in 2016 in which she described her hometown of Moreton as "horrible". Tory Leader Ian Lewis defended her comments as being taken out of context stating that "Debbie, her family and her neighbours had been let down by years of Labour neglect".


2019 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election, Parties and candidates, Campaign
On Monday 8 April, a report leaked by Pensby and Thingwall councillor Phil Brightmore claimed that 20 Green belt sites ranging from 2 to 1,705 houses had been "saved" from development. However, the following day a statement released by Wirral Council dismissed that any sites had been removed from the list of [Green belt] sites identified for potential release.


2019 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election, Parties and candidates, Campaign
Further leaked documents suggested that Labour were deciding on potential sites based on political preference.


2019 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election, Parties and candidates, Campaign
A full list of 21 "accepted" sites published on 23 April was described by Liberal Democrat planning spokesperson Stuart Kelly as a "shabby back-room carve up of green belt sites based on what was politically advantageous to Labour".


2019 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election, Parties and candidates, Policies
An April 12 article in the Wirral Globe put forward each party's priorities for the election.


2019 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election, Aftermath
Labour lost control of the Council losing two seats to the Greens and one to the Conservatives.


2019 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election, Aftermath
Labour councillors chose the new leader of their group Pat Hackett on 5 May. Hackett was elected Council leader on 14 May with 31 votes compared to 25 for Conservative leader Ian Lewis and 10 abstentions. The meeting also saw Labour lose their majority on every committee with chairs given to each opposition party.


2019 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election, Ward results
Results compared directly with the last local election in 2018.


2019 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election, Notes
• italics denote the sitting councillor • bold denotes the winning candidate


2019 Wisconsin Badgers football team
The 2019 Wisconsin Badgers football team represented the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the 2019 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Badgers were led by fifth-year head coach Paul Chryst and competed as members of the West Division of the Big Ten Conference. They played their home games at Camp Randall Stadium in Madison, Wisconsin.


2019 Wisconsin Badgers football team
Wisconsin began the year with six dominating victories, including outscoring their three non-conference opponents 158–0, and beating then-No. 11 Michigan 35–14 in the conference opener. The Badgers rose to sixth in the AP Poll, but suffered their first loss to unranked Illinois, who were 32.5-point underdogs. The next week, Wisconsin lost soundly to Ohio State, 38–7. To close out the regular season, the team beat rival and eighth-ranked Minnesota on the road to secure their place in the Big Ten Championship Game. There, Wisconsin fell to Ohio State a second time, 34–21. They were invited to the Rose Bowl to play Pac-12 Conference champion Oregon, where they lost, 28–27, to end the year with a 10–4 record.


2019 Wisconsin Badgers football team
The Badgers were led on offense by junior running back Jonathan Taylor, who, for the second consecutive year, was the recipient of the Doak Walker Award and was a unanimous All-American. Taylor finished tied atop the Big Ten Conference and third nationally with Ohio State's J. K. Dobbins with 2,003 yards and 21 touchdowns. Center Tyler Biadasz was also a unanimous All-American. Quarterback Jack Coan led the passing game, finishing with 2,727 yards and 18 touchdowns on the year. Defensively, the team was led by first-team all-conference linebacker Zack Baun, who led the team with 12.5 sacks.


2019 Wisconsin Badgers football team, Previous season
The 2018 team started the year at fourth in the pre-season AP Poll, tied for the highest start in school history. The team finished with a disappointing five regular season losses, and were invited to the Pinstripe Bowl to play Miami (FL) in a rematch of the 2017 Orange Bowl. The Badgers won the rematch and finished the year at 8–5.


2019 Wisconsin Badgers football team, Offseason, Recruiting
Wisconsin signed a total of 19 recruits in the class of 2019. The class was ranked as the sixth best class in the Big Ten Conference and the 27th best class nationally by the 247Sports Composite, and was headlined by consensus five-star offensive lineman Logan Brown and four-star quarterback Graham Mertz, who was rated as the best pocket passer in the country by ESPN. Mertz was named MVP of the high school all-star game the All-American Bowl.


2019 Wisconsin Badgers football team, Preseason, Preseason Big Ten poll
Although the Big Ten Conference has not held an official preseason poll since 2010, Cleveland.com has polled sports journalists representing all member schools as a de facto preseason media poll since 2011. For the 2019 poll, Wisconsin was projected to finish in third in the West Division.


2019 Wisconsin Badgers football team, Schedule
Wisconsin's 2019 schedule began with two non-conference home games, first against South Florida of the American Athletic Conference, and then against Central Michigan of the Mid-American Conference. Wisconsin's third non-conference game, against Kent State, also of the Mid-American Conference, was played in October.


2019 Wisconsin Badgers football team, Schedule
In Big Ten Conference play, Wisconsin played all members of the West Division, and drew Michigan, Michigan State, and Ohio State from the East Division.